Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-26

Nv N-htlNillt ll'hlt al i1lEhlunu PARK last
saturday was attended by not less than
1000 persons. The games announced did
not come of, but the tables were well pat
ronized and the weather proved favorable
for dancing, which was highly enioyed bv
the Young people the grounds being hand
somely illuminated 10y Chinese lnnterns and
the band orchestra furnishing the music
The net receipts amounted t. about 500
Rev. DR.. Walker Is u preach at the
Centre church next Sunday.
Some Of the old soldiers are awaiting
with interest the announcement Of the
time Of holding the reunion Of Windham
county veterans which it was proposed a.
have at Townshend this fall We learn
that the executive committee have decided
that It will be iueXpedient 10 hold a reun-
ion this fall, and have postponed it for a
year
j. II. Chamberlain started for the west
Yesterday after a carload Of horses
+. j. Williams offers low prices on his
stock Of wagons, buggies, top carriages,
etc, and quotes plain figures on them in
this issue.
The annual session Of the Universalist
convention of Vermont and Province of
Quebec will be held at Springfield. this
state, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week. In addition 10 reports
and general business, there will be meet
ings for devotion and for addresses Rev.
Mr.. lllman speaks Wednesday evening on
Oniversalisrn, Missionary Religion A
number of Brattleboro Universalsts will
attend. Free return tickets may be- had
from conductors on the cars
Rev. A. D. Spaulding Of West Brattle-
horo Is to preach at the Baptist church
next SUNDAY
over 400 persons joined the Universalst
sunday school excursion 10 Watch Hill this
morning. and others are expected IN Join
from Vernon and Hinsdale. making 10 car
loads.
The contract for building the Universal
lst parsonage has been awarded to Mr.
Lawton, the builder who has lately re
moved here from Putney
Lieut. Gov. Fuller was the principal
speaker at the Washington county veter-
ans reunion held yesterday at Waitsfeld.
The creamery building is now practically
completed and it is expected that the asso-
ciatlon will be prepared to begin operations
10y the middle Of next month.
One hundred and seventy eight tickets
were sold for the Block Island excursion
last Friday and Saturday, and the trip was
highly enjoyed by those who went sea
sickness excepted.
Abort a dozen members Of the Methodist
society, including the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Smithers, are in attendance upon the camp
meeting at Claremou5
Stickney Bros have this week an unusu-
ally attractive offering in new crop Japan
teas
c. j. Bronson of Deerfeld Mass. has
bought the Hinsdale and Brattleboro ex-
press line Of Albert Hall, who has run it
about two years, and will take possession
Oct LIST
Abbey company gave a good presenta
ton of Uncle Toms Cabin 10 a weIl-flled
house ON Tuesday evening,
Mrs. Amanda Newcomb. president of the
Woman's Relief Corps Of Vermont. viii
visit Brattleboro during the coming week
in her official capacity. Mrs Newcolnh is
the only daughter Of Gen. Stephen Thorn
as of Shenandoah valley fame
An unusual fatality among cats has de
veloped itself of late, resembling the mango.
and many household pets are among the
victims.
Electric lights of the incandesccnt nat
tern will soon illuminate the stores of Stick
ney Brothers, Retting Brothers, Randall q
Clapp and also Bliss dining rooms
In Randall < Clapp's window are To he
seen some interesting curi0sities sent from
the Vermont Live Stock companv's ranch
by A. B. Clapp, who is still enjoying his
stay there, Among them are several pairs
OF buffalo horns, some of them polished
buffalo teeth, antelope horns, specimens of
wood gnawed by beavers, specimens of
small meteOric stones, and several pieces of
petrihed wood
Work on the Centreville school house is
nearly completed, and it is expected that it
will be in readiness for school to begin at
the usual time-the first Monday in Sep
TENDER. The new room added is "a bv 81
feet, which, with a l2-foot hall containing
cloak rooms, new plaster and clapboarding
for the old part, and other improvements,
VIII make the building very satisfactory
one The improvements will cost about
5000
OF the High school graduating class of
81, Florence Clark goes 10 Albany business
college this fall, Edith Holton will attend n
private school in Boston, Lester French will
enter the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology at Boston, and Fred Stedman will
take a supplementary course at WESLEYAN
academy, Nilbraham, Mass Several other
members Of the class are intending 10 enter
college or other institutions of learning next
year. Wilbur Whitaker of West Brattle-
boro is to enter the Worcester Institute of
Industrial Science j, W. Clayton the Yer
mont University at Burlington Frank
stowe, who has been studying law with b
L. Waterman, viii attend the ALBANY law
school and Arthur Holden Of Windham.